Bah, I've only just noticed that Chapter 2 of this is slightly out of sync, which is incredibly annoying and I'm not actually sure what's happened there so... Soz.
No worries mate. I forgot how mindless this was. Love 'Build Yourself a Word', and of course 'Magic, Magic E'. Seriously, you are doing some admirable work to make this dross entertaining. As always, Funny as Funk 😅
Preface - great video and I love your work. This is pure nightmare fuel for me though. Takes me right back to the grim 80s and miners strike for some reason (must have been watching it at the same time I guess?). Chain smoking neighbours constantly talking about Scargil etc. For some reason I feel sick to the pits of my stomach with this one. I think this is the only video I have ever seen that has triggered me in some way. I have liked and am already subscribed. Keep up the good work. But god damn, this video sent me some place. Think I’ll go play treasure island dizzy for a while.
As a person of Geordie descent, Geordie Racer is very similar to my parent's childhood stories. The greatest discrepancy is the lack of casual violence, swearing and cigarette smoking, while eating stotties by a bin.
I really hated this show as a child, and back then I was full of joy, whimsy and wonder. Now i'm a grumpy old man and I can say child me was right to hate this. Thanks for reminding me.
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD I think that horrid creature, wordy? He used to do a song about letters using a magic light up pen and I remember one about "Top to Bottom, down and up." I hate it so much. I'm convinced stupidity is contagious and that show did a lot to dumb down 80's England.
The biggest disappointment that came to me as a kid was when the Travel Sweet Tins had needles and thread instead of those powdery boiled pieces of goodness. What I never understood was my nan never ate sweets so where did they go?
Oh how I prayed for those Thursday mornings in 1988 in the West Midlands when we would go into the "AV" room in primary school, (essentially a dark closet with a TV on wheels and tiered seating which I'm almost definitely misremembering as stacked up tables with a bit of carpet for us to sit on) and watch Geordie Racer just to get out of the grim and grey 80s mind (and body) prison that was education 😂 Who were these strange people from this far off land? Why did they speak like that? Could man and beast be so connected as to solve crime? What the FK was a stottie? What the FK was on the TOP of a stottie!? Why was that old wizard still trying to peddle drugs to brummies? Hadn't we all said a big resounding yes to the letter H?? 😂 Seriously it's mental and hilariously brilliant that you've done this 😂❤
@@jonathananderson9769 haha, fortunately we had RTS' commentary to entertain. Dread to think the emotional stress he had to do to get through all these episodes and edit it all together!
Not gunna lie, that "Magic E's" song went HARD, synched SO well with the animation They must've known the connotations that "Magi E's" has in relation to drug culture and stealthily sneaked it in there!
Is this one of those things that they'd show the class one time every week except we didn't have enough time to watch the entire thing before we're supposed to learn about the next thing, so my child mind was eternally irritated and left wondering how the story ends for the rest of the entire school year?
YES. This. The most exiting part of the whole thing was getting picked to go and fetch the one-telly-on-wheels-that-the-school-owned and pissing about with it in the corridor on the way back to class
I think I had successfully repressed all memories of having to watch this at school, until now. It explains how I know what Stottie is despite never having been to Newcastle. The only thing this re-cap is missing to create the experience of watching this at school, is there is not a middle aged women treating using a video recorder like she is taking part in a NASA science mission, and she has been give the tricky bit to do.
Random fact where spuggy lives. He lives in the Byker Wall and although a massive eyesore is a listed building. The lovely red door in that brilliant red is actually a colour only painted for the Byker wall. Yup even the Byker wall has its own listed paint and can only be maintained in that certain shade. Yeah told you it was random.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Dark Towers first, please boss! There’s a genuine plot in that one and - I think - Christopher Biggins as a hard man villain. That can’t be right, surely?
Bloody hell , this brings back memories. I remember magic E and wordy. I'm sure after the episode, we had to answer questions on a sheet about the show. So much of this show now looks well dodgy and that's not including the DJ. Epic commentary as always. Glad your back with us RTS!
I love the escalation of the thieves' crimes... precious jewels... priceless artworks... the contents of the tills at a parochial Northern rec centre. Truly the heist of the century. Just think how many 10p bottles of luridly-coloured Panda Pop that place must sell of a weekend. I genuinely loved this when I was a kid, even though I grew up in East Anglia and could probably only understand about one in three words that came out of Spuggie's mouth.
Wasn't the rec centre where everyone went to pay their entry fees to be in the Great North Run? In the bizarre world of Geordie Racer, it would make perfect sense for the race organisers to leave massive bundles of cash lying around completely unattended during the race.
0:16 "inexplicably known as Spuggie" I remember being about 7 and the book that accompanied the series at school told us that Spuggie meant Sparrow. Totally explicked
I remember watching this whole thing in Primary School, enjoyed it although ended up getting a bit tired of it after a few hours. I changed school halfway through, and imagine my joy when the first English lesson I had at the new school was... starting Geordie Racer again 😭
Well that brought me back to being ushered into the staff room with the rest of the class to watch the big TV hid behind two doors. Dark Towers and Badger Girl next.
i watched a few episodes of this at school , but due to the amount of twagging i did i never did figure out if spuggy was a lad , a lass, some sort of strange sort of sexless clone. The magic E certainly had its time in the 90s
Ah... memories. Every week down to the library and the primary teacher would roll out the TV and we'd watch this. It actually created a mandella effect for me when Ant got blinded in Byker Grove. I could've sworn he said "Spuggy I cannae see mon"
When I was a kid, once a week someone would have to run across school and wheel back "THE TELLY" so we could spend a whole lesson watching Geordie Racer... BLISS!!! (and teachers complain they aren't paid enough...)
Haha yeah, hey 'member THE PHONE? (also the local pub and doctor etc) - those were the days (as long as you weren't getting diddled by a TV star of course)!
I remember that mr wordsworth character. That series looked dire, well done for watching it all. I recognised the dad, he was one of the blokes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Missed out on Geordie Racer when I was at school; my lot were subjected to Badger Girl instead. Pretty sure it still had the same sodding songs in, though!
Legitimately love these educational recaps. It reminds me of the big black tvs being wheeled into the classroom and the buzz of excitement from classmates. If I was sitting on a tiny green plastic chair I’d be right back there! Thank you, so very funny and such a blast from the past! I’ll pray for your sanity!
@ I think that nostalgia can act like a big comfortable blanket and wrap you up and give you peace and comfort. I completely agree, I’d sit and watch Geordie Racer or the Dragon’s Eye and just smile now. I choose to take comfort in it! It’s like the Spectrum games remind me of my oldest and dearest friend. He had a Spectrum and I had a C64. The afternoons spent, loading games, being silly and just enjoying life were magnificent.
@@Razaprime cool - I was a c64 man myself. I still like watching Dr who from that time, as you say the nostalgia gives me a comfort. Like watching something like the littlest hobo and I remember watching it at grans, these memories locked up somewhere in our heads
"After the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Peter Rowell faced a disciplinary hearing after saying "she had huge knockers" after footage of the princess was shown and not realising the microphone was switched on."
I don't remember this show, thankfully, but hate-watched 'Beeker Grurve' for a while as a kid, also with a character called Spuggy, and debuting Ant and Deck, the moss piglets of broadcast television... stick yer license lol :D
What the fuck did I just stumble in on? Literally one sentence in, and I know I'm gonna love this channel. Edit: 'Registered offender' made me laugh out loud. Yeah I'm hooked. ❤
This brings back childhood nightmares! I bloody hated this so much, but kicking k (by the wizard) despite my best efforts, still lives on rent free in my head. I HAD managed to forget about Wordy though, until now! Damn Wordy is annoying!
Ah,,,I'm so glad my year at school was just too old to have to sit through this one. I think we had the best of Look & Read: The Boy From Space, Dark Towers, Badger Girl and Fairground.
You can understand why all 1980s kids thought it was okay to just go to random adults' houses. I can spell but let's not mention the man who had all the kids hanging round his house. Every 1980s kids knew one.
I would have been 7 when this came out...and it seems to have completely passed me by! This is the first time I have heard of it. I love your narration of it and the humour - a great evening's entertainment! BBC computers...now I do remember them and the awful educational games teachers sometimes let you play in class. P.S. amongst all the 80s drabness and boffy fashion the series was slightly saved by spuggy's sister being a bit of alright!
Yeah, I'm Cumbrian so I know the term Spuggy but I don't quite get why they call HIM Spuggy. He loves pigeons. It'd be like calling a runner "Hurdle boy"
Does anyone else remember the safety videos we had to watch, one particular terrifying safety video i remember was "Never rest in peace" a farm safety video involving kids losing limbs and drowning and the ghost of a dead farmer accused of murdering children. Scared the life out of me and my classmates
I literally had to nip downstairs and make a cheese scottie. How have you made me binge watch this on a Friday Night? I think it says more about me than you. Anyway well done mate 😂
I have a distinct memory of pissing against a tree in the late 80s and singing "weeeee magic e". I studied French for 9 years and remember nothing, the power of a catchy song
10 mins in and the I oy thing I can remember is the songs, I think my brain blocked out the sex criminal, did you know that that was Jane Goldman who wrote Kick ass?
The fact that Micky Ston(e) was a nonse makes the interactions even more cringy but hilarious. Can you do more 80’s school staples. Anyone remember Stig of the dump? Was some learning game we had in school, everyone queuing to have a 15 minute turn in which you never left the screen. Lol Also, f#&k Baz and Wordy………………….and Plod. Keep up the videos this is fast becoming my favourite channel.
It's pretty much accurate. I grew up as the soft southern cousin who could barely understand his own relatives at Christmas. Go 20mi north of Newcastle and it's almost entirely unintelligible. As in they use entirely different words.
Started this thinking it was something I had never seen before. Until that red robot popped up and then I was smacked by a memory overload! It always reminded me of the Henry Vacuum Cleaner as a kid.
I saw this at school too 😂😂 our teacher bought in a stottie for us to try omg memories...but also your commentary got me crying with laughter... brilliant 🤣
Finally got around to watching all this in one go. So many boring school memories coming back. I wonder now why the class got so excited when the big TV & VHS player got wheeled in. Still had a laugh thanks to you mate.👍
Superb. Only other look and read I can remember was badger girl, but I suspect that was older, and somehow even worse than geordie racer. Probably didn’t even have a banging theme tune.
These things were weird. Being Welsh, I remember there was a show like this designed to teach us the language and they were being pursued by some Darth Vader knockoff who broke the fourth wall. Messed up thing, is that the show ended with Derp Vader being murdered by the kids after they pushed him in the deep end of a swimming pool. And he melted! Messed up, man. Messed up. Making us learn Welsh 😨
Thankyou for making this. I feel like you did very well. To begin, I thought “oh no”, this is not the kind of thing I enjoy at all. By by the end, my oh my, I really did enjoy it a lot. I have another question, in stealing a homing pigeon , won’t it just, well you know, home itself back again to them whom I stole it from? I asked Chat GPT 4o for help with this, the transcript follows… Me: In stealing the homing potion will it just return back to him again by itself? ChatGPT 4o: If a homing potion is enchanted to return to its owner, then stealing it would likely trigger the enchantment, causing it to return to its original owner on its own. The mechanism and speed of return would depend on the nature of the enchantment-whether it’s immediate, delayed, or requires certain conditions to activate. If you’re imagining or writing about such a scenario, you might want to clarify how the enchantment works for consistency. Me: I mean pigeon ChatGPT 4o: If you’re talking about a homing pigeon, then yes, stealing it might not prevent it from returning to its original owner. Homing pigeons have a natural ability to navigate back to their home loft, often guided by the Earth’s magnetic field and visual landmarks. So that’s that, and also looks like we do know how they do the homing, is done with magnets. Also, I drive over that rotating bridge every evening on the way home from work! And now, thanks to your superb video montage mini documentary, I will be thinking of The Geordie Racer every time I cross it.
Look and Read! I watched this show as a kid back in the 80's when i was at primary school. The tecka rolling out the TV was always a mint moment. Propa class man! 1:00:39 that busy aint even an actor Mickey got rumbled! lol
God I hated these at school. I especially hated the parts where we were to read aloud slowly in unison with that annoying child tone. One of the other Look and Read things genuinely terrified me, so I got out of that one at least.
Bah, I've only just noticed that Chapter 2 of this is slightly out of sync, which is incredibly annoying and I'm not actually sure what's happened there so... Soz.
Please do a Sammy's Super T-Shirt episode.
Someone needs sacking for that error.
@TKMRacer28 it's me. It's always me.
No worries mate. I forgot how mindless this was. Love 'Build Yourself a Word', and of course 'Magic, Magic E'. Seriously, you are doing some admirable work to make this dross entertaining. As always, Funny as Funk 😅
Preface - great video and I love your work.
This is pure nightmare fuel for me though. Takes me right back to the grim 80s and miners strike for some reason (must have been watching it at the same time I guess?).
Chain smoking neighbours constantly talking about Scargil etc.
For some reason I feel sick to the pits of my stomach with this one. I think this is the only video I have ever seen that has triggered me in some way.
I have liked and am already subscribed. Keep up the good work. But god damn, this video sent me some place.
Think I’ll go play treasure island dizzy for a while.
Teaching kids about magic e's when the 90s where just around the corner
Yep great preparation
Also the shamen helped with Ebeneezer good
don't forget billy whiz either, the dandy had a bit to answer for, and the magic mushrooms in magic roundabout
The memories of a bloomin freezing tv room at school, a massive box of a TV on a stand with a noisy VCR and a teacher who had no idea how to work it.
Also the TV speakers would go all funny if it went too loud
100% the same memory unlocked mate thanks 😂😂
lol yeah, and those minute-long countdowns before school tv programmes, talk about hyping it up :D
And the teacher would for ever stop the tape to ask bloody stupid questions
@@TheRealBigDan why did we have to sit on the floor too?
As a person of Geordie descent, Geordie Racer is very similar to my parent's childhood stories.
The greatest discrepancy is the lack of casual violence, swearing and cigarette smoking, while eating stotties by a bin.
I really hated this show as a child, and back then I was full of joy, whimsy and wonder. Now i'm a grumpy old man and I can say child me was right to hate this. Thanks for reminding me.
I loved it but only ever saw it at school so it was better than lessons
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD I think that horrid creature, wordy? He used to do a song about letters using a magic light up pen and I remember one about "Top to Bottom, down and up."
I hate it so much. I'm convinced stupidity is contagious and that show did a lot to dumb down 80's England.
@@fremenondesand3896 lol yeah magic pencil I think it was called - had a big light bulb in the end :)
0:35 You just know it's fiction, because those biscuit tins contain nothing but sewing equipment.
😂😂😂
The biggest disappointment that came to me as a kid was when the Travel Sweet Tins had needles and thread instead of those powdery boiled pieces of goodness. What I never understood was my nan never ate sweets so where did they go?
Lol
@@lostintranslation1957Thatcher probably stole them
We had a magic E wizard at school. He used to hang round the back of the bike sheds with the smokers, in prison now.
He seemed cool. I didn't question why a 35 yr-old was behind the bike sheds.
That's hardcore for primary school
We've gone from a noncey dragon to an actual nonce in just one children's series.
Such is life
Oh how I prayed for those Thursday mornings in 1988 in the West Midlands when we would go into the "AV" room in primary school, (essentially a dark closet with a TV on wheels and tiered seating which I'm almost definitely misremembering as stacked up tables with a bit of carpet for us to sit on) and watch Geordie Racer just to get out of the grim and grey 80s mind (and body) prison that was education 😂
Who were these strange people from this far off land? Why did they speak like that? Could man and beast be so connected as to solve crime? What the FK was a stottie? What the FK was on the TOP of a stottie!? Why was that old wizard still trying to peddle drugs to brummies? Hadn't we all said a big resounding yes to the letter H?? 😂
Seriously it's mental and hilariously brilliant that you've done this 😂❤
Lol brilliant I was same in west brom
‘Northern poverty’?! He’s got a bloody breakfast bar!!
Lol
This unlocked some deeply buried childhood memories of extreme boredom.
Childhood trauma you mean.
The false hope that the TV trolley came out and you didn't have to sit through assembly or maths, and then this comes on.
I even got bored watching this video!
@@jonathananderson9769 haha, fortunately we had RTS' commentary to entertain. Dread to think the emotional stress he had to do to get through all these episodes and edit it all together!
True - I got to the start of episode 8 and had to stop too much Geordie R*pist on Magic e for me
Honestly as a school kids aged 6 or 7 getting a tv show set in your home city of Newcastle was mind blowing
ooh Biker.
I bet!!!
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer He canna see jeff
Fun fact: that wizard went on to become Ebeneezer Goode.
Chooooon. I had it on cassette 100% dance
Mate through the Dragons eye now Geordie racer. I am forever in your debt. Pure class
@dominicpayne4393 wait... there's a dragons eye?!
Legendary shows
"Haddaway..." Top notch as usual!
Baby don't hurt me
That is such a good gag, it's criminal how quickly it passes! 😂
Wordy looks like a South Park character who slept on scrabble.
Lol
I'm so glad you got your channel back. Sorry you had to put up with that undue stress, and thanks for this video!
What happened with the channel? Disappeared.
In Manchester in the 90’s we also had a ‘Magic E Wizard’ but I think he was up to other things.
Probably looked the same though :)
Not gunna lie, that "Magic E's" song went HARD, synched SO well with the animation
They must've known the connotations that "Magi E's" has in relation to drug culture and stealthily sneaked it in there!
The message system...."AMANDA!!!!" I'm dying😂
Worst Auf Wiedersehen Pet ever
Nah that was the one in the native American reservation
Is this one of those things that they'd show the class one time every week except we didn't have enough time to watch the entire thing before we're supposed to learn about the next thing, so my child mind was eternally irritated and left wondering how the story ends for the rest of the entire school year?
YES. This. The most exiting part of the whole thing was getting picked to go and fetch the one-telly-on-wheels-that-the-school-owned and pissing about with it in the corridor on the way back to class
Yep same. Had to answer questions on bits we hadn't seen
@@turnitonagain2lol. Reminds me of my time doing the ohp acetates in assembly
Ah, RUclips suggested something worth watching as last, maybe my friday night is saved after all...
Same, mate. 👍
"Mickey, you broadcast..."
"Yes?"
"So you're a..."
LOL, RTS is back & on form!
I think I had successfully repressed all memories of having to watch this at school, until now. It explains how I know what Stottie is despite never having been to Newcastle. The only thing this re-cap is missing to create the experience of watching this at school, is there is not a middle aged women treating using a video recorder like she is taking part in a NASA science mission, and she has been give the tricky bit to do.
Lol. Wasn't it great to watch telly at school though
Random fact where spuggy lives. He lives in the Byker Wall and although a massive eyesore is a listed building. The lovely red door in that brilliant red is actually a colour only painted for the Byker wall. Yup even the Byker wall has its own listed paint and can only be maintained in that certain shade. Yeah told you it was random.
Top fact!
You don’t go to the byker wall on your own either 😮
@@TheFettz especially on a night time.
That's literally the opposite of "random". Somebody didn't listen to Wordie... 😂
Cool fact
Great to see you back mate after the youtube purge. Think you should celebrate by having a massive stottie man
I second this
Requesting (Badger Girl) full season on YT
It's on the list along with Dark Tower
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Fuvkin boss tho.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Dark Towers first, please boss! There’s a genuine plot in that one and - I think - Christopher Biggins as a hard man villain. That can’t be right, surely?
Far fewer unintended double entendres in Badger Girl.
+1 vote for badger girl!
OH MY F'ING G i was not expecting this! god bless you and everyone who sails in you.
The magic E song for Christmas number 1.
The magic e song is still in my head all these years later.
Got thrown out of a lesson for singing "shit becomes shite with me, magic magic e"
Through the dragons eye was more traumatising, though.
Fair play mate :)
I loved this at school - the theme tune was absolutely banging. Byker grove had a spuggy too
Bloody hell , this brings back memories. I remember magic E and wordy. I'm sure after the episode, we had to answer questions on a sheet about the show. So much of this show now looks well dodgy and that's not including the DJ. Epic commentary as always. Glad your back with us RTS!
I didn't think the Magic E song could get any better... I was so very wrong.
Did you ever cover the tie-in games for these shows? I remember playing them in school 🫠
Not yet, might be worth doing a video of them all when I finish this lot off
I love the escalation of the thieves' crimes... precious jewels... priceless artworks... the contents of the tills at a parochial Northern rec centre. Truly the heist of the century. Just think how many 10p bottles of luridly-coloured Panda Pop that place must sell of a weekend.
I genuinely loved this when I was a kid, even though I grew up in East Anglia and could probably only understand about one in three words that came out of Spuggie's mouth.
Wasn't the rec centre where everyone went to pay their entry fees to be in the Great North Run? In the bizarre world of Geordie Racer, it would make perfect sense for the race organisers to leave massive bundles of cash lying around completely unattended during the race.
You my friend are a genius and have just cured something that may have lay dormant in a forty three year old man. I love you. Said it. Live it.
As a 43 year old man I agree
0:16 "inexplicably known as Spuggie" I remember being about 7 and the book that accompanied the series at school told us that Spuggie meant Sparrow. Totally explicked
I remember watching this whole thing in Primary School, enjoyed it although ended up getting a bit tired of it after a few hours. I changed school halfway through, and imagine my joy when the first English lesson I had at the new school was... starting Geordie Racer again 😭
Lol still better than doing pages of sums though eh
Well that brought me back to being ushered into the staff room with the rest of the class to watch the big TV hid behind two doors. Dark Towers and Badger Girl next.
Spuggy is another word for a bird not a stottie🙃
i watched a few episodes of this at school , but due to the amount of twagging i did i never did figure out if spuggy was a lad , a lass, some sort of strange sort of sexless clone.
The magic E certainly had its time in the 90s
Your confusion may stem from there being a girl in Byker Grove called Spuggy.
That magic E song was banging 🎶
That's actually Kevin Whatleys real life wife playing his wife in the show.
And his real pigeon
“Stop juicing that pigeon you maniac”had me rolling
Wordy seriously gives me the creeps. It also makes an appearance in Threads, the fucker can literally survive the apocalypse. 😱
Ah... memories.
Every week down to the library and the primary teacher would roll out the TV and we'd watch this.
It actually created a mandella effect for me when Ant got blinded in Byker Grove. I could've sworn he said "Spuggy I cannae see mon"
When I was a kid, once a week someone would have to run across school and wheel back "THE TELLY" so we could spend a whole lesson watching Geordie Racer... BLISS!!!
(and teachers complain they aren't paid enough...)
Haha yeah, hey 'member THE PHONE? (also the local pub and doctor etc) - those were the days (as long as you weren't getting diddled by a TV star of course)!
I remember that mr wordsworth character. That series looked dire, well done for watching it all. I recognised the dad, he was one of the blokes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Yeah! He was young Nev. I’m rewatching that at the moment so Nev appearing suddenly was great.
He was in inspecter morse as well
Made my friday, this. Thanks! Such a great channel. Do you remember Badger Girl?
@@craigchampagne7797 I do not, but it's on my list!
I remember it
Missed out on Geordie Racer when I was at school; my lot were subjected to Badger Girl instead. Pretty sure it still had the same sodding songs in, though!
Remember those scary public broadcasting videos they used to show? I remember a farm one where a lad drowned in sh*t and a girl drank weed killer.
Yep - I loved that recent inside number 9 called wise owl amazing
I did this at school and well... even as a child it was just awful... I remember the pure joy when it was finally over!
I loved it! But alternative was pages of times tables
Mate, your content is bloody brilliant and your commentary and editing are comic genius.
Thank you for the laughs. Keep up the good work.
@22:17 Spuggy confirmed as a Trekkie in his Original series Star Trek T-Shirt
Legitimately love these educational recaps. It reminds me of the big black tvs being wheeled into the classroom and the buzz of excitement from classmates. If I was sitting on a tiny green plastic chair I’d be right back there!
Thank you, so very funny and such a blast from the past! I’ll pray for your sanity!
I miss those days
@ simpler times, weren’t they?
@@Razaprime yep - even this stuff seemed amazing lol
@ I think that nostalgia can act like a big comfortable blanket and wrap you up and give you peace and comfort. I completely agree, I’d sit and watch Geordie Racer or the Dragon’s Eye and just smile now. I choose to take comfort in it! It’s like the Spectrum games remind me of my oldest and dearest friend. He had a Spectrum and I had a C64. The afternoons spent, loading games, being silly and just enjoying life were magnificent.
@@Razaprime cool - I was a c64 man myself. I still like watching Dr who from that time, as you say the nostalgia gives me a comfort. Like watching something like the littlest hobo and I remember watching it at grans, these memories locked up somewhere in our heads
As someone who lives in Newcastle, if nothing else the old footage of the city is fascinating to see.
Are people still called spuggy?
@@Tsa-SONGS-ABOUT-BEING-a-DAD not to their face
@@gamesmasteruploader4863 😂
"After the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Peter Rowell faced a disciplinary hearing after saying "she had huge knockers" after footage of the princess was shown and not realising the microphone was switched on."
@@gamesmasteruploader4863 yeah, I read that one. I wasn't shocked, haha
The most believable part of the story is a Vietnamese geordie.
I don't remember this show, thankfully, but hate-watched 'Beeker Grurve' for a while as a kid, also with a character called Spuggy, and debuting Ant and Deck, the moss piglets of broadcast television... stick yer license lol :D
I don't know what a moss piglet is but I'm going to use it in a sentence today.
What the fuck did I just stumble in on?
Literally one sentence in, and I know I'm gonna love this channel.
Edit: 'Registered offender' made me laugh out loud. Yeah I'm hooked. ❤
I can always appreciate someone with a Buddy avatar. Welcome aboard.
@RoseTintedSpectrum I've had this avatar for over a decade, and no one has ever picked it.
Think you're my kinda guy. =)
This brings back childhood nightmares! I bloody hated this so much, but kicking k (by the wizard) despite my best efforts, still lives on rent free in my head. I HAD managed to forget about Wordy though, until now! Damn Wordy is annoying!
Ah,,,I'm so glad my year at school was just too old to have to sit through this one.
I think we had the best of Look & Read: The Boy From Space, Dark Towers, Badger Girl and Fairground.
Nah Geordie racer was great! This edit doesn't do it justice:)
You can understand why all 1980s kids thought it was okay to just go to random adults' houses. I can spell but let's not mention the man who had all the kids hanging round his house. Every 1980s kids knew one.
Weird wasn't it - people would go to the pub and leave toddlers at home
I would have been 7 when this came out...and it seems to have completely passed me by! This is the first time I have heard of it.
I love your narration of it and the humour - a great evening's entertainment! BBC computers...now I do remember them and the awful educational games teachers sometimes let you play in class.
P.S. amongst all the 80s drabness and boffy fashion the series was slightly saved by spuggy's sister being a bit of alright!
the rinsing is brilliant, not laughed so much in ages!
Also a Spuggy is a common sparrow, so hes a common garden geordie in every way
Yeah, I'm Cumbrian so I know the term Spuggy but I don't quite get why they call HIM Spuggy. He loves pigeons. It'd be like calling a runner "Hurdle boy"
29:28 I absolutely lost my shit. My god, dogs jumping all over me while I had a coughing fit.
I live quite near Folkestone, it's in Kent in the same general area as Canterbury and Margate.
Does anyone else remember the safety videos we had to watch, one particular terrifying safety video i remember was "Never rest in peace" a farm safety video involving kids losing limbs and drowning and the ghost of a dead farmer accused of murdering children.
Scared the life out of me and my classmates
Yep they were awesome horror films
Friday nights viewing sorted! Thanks mate. theses videos and the channel are awesome,keep up the good work brother 👏🏼👍🏼
I literally had to nip downstairs and make a cheese scottie. How have you made me binge watch this on a Friday Night? I think it says more about me than you. Anyway well done mate 😂
@@gavinward1348 special horses
I don't know if you been asked already but you've got to do Badger Girl next! Anyone else remember that?
@@kerbal666 it'll be BG or Dark Towers next!
@RoseTintedSpectrum Oooh I don't know dark towers. I always find myself going down nostalgic rabbit holes with you 👍
I have a distinct memory of pissing against a tree in the late 80s and singing "weeeee magic e". I studied French for 9 years and remember nothing, the power of a catchy song
The Geordie racer theme tune is still stuck in my head
10 mins in and the I oy thing I can remember is the songs, I think my brain blocked out the sex criminal, did you know that that was Jane Goldman who wrote Kick ass?
My girlfriends dad is a Geordie, anything newcastle related I can get her to watch. It's time boys, rosetinted date night 😂.
She's loving it 👍🏼
Should get you some brownie points mate with this classic
That Magic E song is EXACTLY how i remember it.
The fact that Micky Ston(e) was a nonse makes the interactions even more cringy but hilarious.
Can you do more 80’s school staples. Anyone remember Stig of the dump? Was some learning game we had in school, everyone queuing to have a 15 minute turn in which you never left the screen. Lol
Also, f#&k Baz and Wordy………………….and Plod.
Keep up the videos this is fast becoming my favourite channel.
The Giant Hall is Seaton Delaval Hall and it was also in Supergran! It was the bad guys house in that
7:29 sorry is that Kevin “Lewis” Whately?! Did someone tell him or his agent he could be in a crime drama set in Newcastle?
"There are many dangers... but we'll risk the pigeons anyway as it's a laugh."
Confession time, the magic pencil scared me badly as a kid, as did wordy!!😂
Love this!!! Thank you! Dark Towers next?? 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I never watched this program, but I watched this entire video - your video editing and narration is fking incredible! Amazing content ❤
I don't remember this one.
For me, Byker Grove was my first exposure to Northern kids. I remember wondering why they never went to school.
Oooh byker byker byker bykeeeer grove YEAH!
@@RoseTintedSpectrum ...and let us not forget PJ and Duncan's "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble!"
My brain refuses to accept this dialect, half the time I feel like they're making it up on the spot. It's so weird, I love it!
Howay man!
It's pretty much accurate. I grew up as the soft southern cousin who could barely understand his own relatives at Christmas. Go 20mi north of Newcastle and it's almost entirely unintelligible. As in they use entirely different words.
oh my god your channel is back I haven't been so scared in my entire life
Started this thinking it was something I had never seen before. Until that red robot popped up and then I was smacked by a memory overload! It always reminded me of the Henry Vacuum Cleaner as a kid.
I saw this at school too 😂😂 our teacher bought in a stottie for us to try omg memories...but also your commentary got me crying with laughter... brilliant 🤣
Finally got around to watching all this in one go. So many boring school memories coming back. I wonder now why the class got so excited when the big TV & VHS player got wheeled in. Still had a laugh thanks to you mate.👍
Well that ruined my memories of blue flash,🎉😂,cant wait for your next masterpiece
Fucking hell it's only wordy! Who remembers badger girl and was it dark castle?
I absolutely love all your videos the games master stuff had me rolling around on the floor keep up the good work
Superb. Only other look and read I can remember was badger girl, but I suspect that was older, and somehow even worse than geordie racer. Probably didn’t even have a banging theme tune.
Brilliant vid mate, laughed so much. Thank you :)
These things were weird. Being Welsh, I remember there was a show like this designed to teach us the language and they were being pursued by some Darth Vader knockoff who broke the fourth wall.
Messed up thing, is that the show ended with Derp Vader being murdered by the kids after they pushed him in the deep end of a swimming pool. And he melted!
Messed up, man. Messed up. Making us learn Welsh 😨
@@TheBeird that is yaki dark
@@RoseTintedSpectrumThat’s far too creative 😂
Thankyou for making this. I feel like you did very well.
To begin, I thought “oh no”, this is not the kind of thing I enjoy at all.
By by the end, my oh my, I really did enjoy it a lot.
I have another question, in stealing a homing pigeon , won’t it just, well you know, home itself back again to them whom I stole it from?
I asked Chat GPT 4o for help with this, the transcript follows…
Me: In stealing the homing potion will it just return back to him again by itself?
ChatGPT 4o: If a homing potion is enchanted to return to its owner, then stealing it would likely trigger the enchantment, causing it to return to its original owner on its own. The mechanism and speed of return would depend on the nature of the enchantment-whether it’s immediate, delayed, or requires certain conditions to activate. If you’re imagining or writing about such a scenario, you might want to clarify how the enchantment works for consistency.
Me: I mean pigeon
ChatGPT 4o: If you’re talking about a homing pigeon, then yes, stealing it might not prevent it from returning to its original owner. Homing pigeons have a natural ability to navigate back to their home loft, often guided by the Earth’s magnetic field and visual landmarks.
So that’s that, and also looks like we do know how they do the homing, is done with magnets.
Also, I drive over that rotating bridge every evening on the way home from work! And now, thanks to your superb video montage mini documentary, I will be thinking of The Geordie Racer every time I cross it.
Look and Read! I watched this show as a kid back in the 80's when i was at primary school. The tecka rolling out the TV was always a mint moment. Propa class man! 1:00:39 that busy aint even an actor Mickey got rumbled! lol
Me too - massive telly and video on wheels happy days
4:26 "I followed my MAP I simply went ****" - cut to the nonce. Nicely done
God I hated these at school. I especially hated the parts where we were to read aloud slowly in unison with that annoying child tone. One of the other Look and Read things genuinely terrified me, so I got out of that one at least.
boy they really went crazy on the midi